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 110 SCOTT

And feelings keen, and fancy's glow,

They sleep with him who sleeps below:

And, if thou mourn' st they could not save

From error him who owns this grave,

Be every harsher thought suppressed,

And sacred be the last long rest.

Here, where the end of earthly things

Lays heroes, patriots, bards, and kings;

Where stiff the hand, and still the tongue,

Of those who fought, and spoke, and sung;

Here, where the fretted aisles prolong

The distant notes of holy song,

As if some angel spoke agen,

'All peace on earth, good-will to men' ;

If ever from an English heart,

O, here let prejudice depart,

And, partial feeling cast aside,

Record, that Fox a Briton died !

When Europe crouched to France's yoke,

And Austria bent, and Prussia broke,

And the firm Russian's purpose brave

Was bartered by a timorous slave,

Even then dishonour's peace he spurned,

The sullied olive-branch returned,

Stood for his country's glory fast,

And nailed her colours to the mast !

Heaven, to reward his firmness, gave

A portion in this honoured grave,

And ne'er held marble in its trust

Of two such wondrous men the dust.

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